Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Determined bloggers who blew whistle – The Guardian: I make no sweeping claims about blogs and mainstream media – both have their roles – but in this case it seems the bloggers win on timeliness, accuracy, relevance, effort, ethics, and stupid names. My cat would be grumpy, but she’s too thrilled at being referenced amongst [...]
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From The Independent: Eight years and £15m after the business was set up, the administrators have been called in and all 13 centres in the UK have been closed. The company was taking advance payments until the day it went into liquidation. Remember what happened in Australia with Dore? Those keeping an eye on Holford [...]
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Whilst Gimpy’s blog and Holford Watch continue the questioning about Wynford Dore’s recent statement on the Dore website (don’t forget to check out Translucent Science – our collective blog!) - a brand new article in The Guardian – “‘Miracle Dyslexia Cure’ Firm On The Ropes”: A company that claimed to offer a “miracle cure” for dyslexia [...]
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Brand new site! Great collaborators willing to point you in the direction of research and links! Welcome to Translucent Science: Specialist blogs can be fascinating but most of them have a very small reach when compared to mainstream media. When bloggers highlight mistakes or poor coverage of an issue, few people know about it. Translucent [...]
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First, I’d like to humbly direct people firstly to the blogs of the legends Brainduck, Gimpy and Holford Watch – who have inspired my investigations on this matter beyond the great blog entry back in 2006 by Ben Goldacre of Bad Science Blog. They have been keeping the best running-account of events so far; I [...]
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… but we still have questions… First, a nod to Holford Watch, who has also just noticed the same site announcement just minutes before I did! This is from the official DORE site forum: We are still waiting to hear from our advisors more about the plans that are emerging, but we will share with [...]
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So, I’m still waiting on a reply from DORE Australia, after reading a great blogger on the topic of DORE. You see, I have an unanswered question. Something I emailed to them last month and got a cheery reply to, even! Simple enough question, I thought. “Why would the Australian website for DORE claim that [...]
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I went to this event due to the suggestion of a friend. He didn’t tell me that DORE would be there… Bad Science gave me my first introduction to this group?and?Holford Watch?(citing the blog?Brain Duck,which looked at?DORE) gives some useful links to papers too. It is very difficult, in such cases, not to yell in [...]
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